Lone Pine

Second Edition. Lone Pine is a story of love, treachery, and grace. A 1971 murder rattled this tiny northern Minnesota mining town leaving the teenage Thomson sisters orphaned and David Chapman collateral damage, framed on drug charges and banished. Now, thirty-three years later, his sanity teetering, David returns. What should be quaint turns complex and he is shoehorned into confrontations with past disasters, present fates, and Thomson women. His first love, Angie Thomson rebukes him, her daughter, Clarissa enchants him, but their shared pasts draw him into a strange, tiny world of danger that time has not mitigated. Passions mix bitter with tender until truth bubbles to the surface and all perceptions are altered. Lives are irrevocably changed exposing the myriad variations of shining or rusted American Dreams.

Ken Waxlax grew up in northern Minnesota, graduated from high school, and attended college. After moving to Oregon, he traveled the Pacific Northwest extensively. He currently works and writes in the Southern California desert.